First NIOZ-UBC webinar on Monday, April 12
The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is very happy to announce an online mini-conference on Monday April 12 (16:00 – 17:30) with three speakers from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research): Dr. Nina Dombrowski, MSc. Jeroen Hoekendijk and Dr. Julia Engelmann. All three speakers are currently using state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods to carry their research. A short introduction of the speakers and the title of their […]
Review paper on structural variant detection in cancer genomes
Research into the role of structural variants (SVs) in cancer has been limited due to difficulties in detection. UBC members Ianthe A. E. M. van Belzen, Alexander Schönhuth, Patrick Kemmeren & Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa explore current strategies for integrating SV callsets and to enable the use of tumor-specific SVs in precision oncology. Full-spectrum SV detection with high recall and […]
EMBL professor Eileen Furlong: keynote on Genome Regulation
On 2 October, Eileen Furlong joined the annual UBC symposium in Utrecht as keynote speaker, discussing ‘Genome regulation during developmental transitions: generating robustness and precision’. Furlong is the head of the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL in Heidelberg and a pioneer in applying genome-wide approaches for understanding molecular mechanisms in complex, multicellular organisms. Three Dutch […]
Breaking Science: four UBC participants on 20 March
Four UBC members participate in the Breaking Science competition and have a shot at winning 1500,00. Come and support them while pitching their bioinformatics research on Monday 20 March in Café Hoffmann (Janskerkhof, Utrecht). What is Breaking Science? Increasingly, researchers are asked to explain their research in a (very) short timeframe and to an audience […]
Lecture by Heineken Prize award winner Jennifer Doudna on Crispr-Cas
We are very proud to announce that prof. Jennifer Doudna will give the KNAW Heineken Lecture ‘The structural biology and applications of the CRISPR-CAS technology‘ at Utrecht University on September 28. This year, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) awarded the 2016 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics (a sum of […]